A healthy working environment
A pleasant and healthy workplace offers many advantages: employees are happier, more productive and report sick less often. Every reason to invest in a good workplace.
When it comes to refurbishing commercial properties, you are looking for a flooring design that will set your property apart. Forbo's portfolio will make it easy to select the ideal floor covering to meet your needs.
Studies have shown that a focus on employee and workplace wellbeing can result in improved productivity, increased morale, less sick days and better staff retention. Key factors such as lighting, indoor air quality, noise control and thermal comfort can all contribute to better indoor office environments. We understand that a holistic approach to commercial office design is important, in order to have a positive effect on an employee’s productivity, health, well-being and satisfaction. That’s why our design team has created a comprehensive portfolio of textile and resilient modular flooring solutions that can help you to create high-quality and fully functional spaces.
Key factors such as lighting, indoor air quality, noise control and thermal comfort can all contribute to better indoor office environments.
Products to use in Commercial offices
Flotex flocked flooring is the perfect solution for offices where foot traffic and movement of chairs requires a durable floor covering. It is slip resistant, comfortable and has an excellent sound absorbency up to 20dB. Flotex is available in a wide range of colours and stimulating designs and is offered in a sheet, tile and plank format. Flotex also holds the Allergy UK Seal of Approval and it contains up to 52% recycled content.
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Tessera has a wide range of multi-construction carpet tiles. Various formats are available including planks and XL tiles enabling creative floor design. It reduces impact noise to up to 30dB. Random lay ranges are available, reducing installation waste to 2%.
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The robust, hard-wearing properties of our Needlefelt floors make them ideal for installations that meet high traffic or where chairs with castors are likely to be used. Needlefelt carpet often provides a cost-efficient alternative to conventional broadloom carpeting in heavily-used areas that require a practical and durable textile floor covering.
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Our Marmoleum floor coverings are natural floors associated with sustainability, durability, high quality and innovative design, which makes Marmoleum an ideal floor covering for office environments.
Marmoleum is made from natural raw materials and is the most sustainable flooring choice. It is a CO2 neutral produced floor covering, measured from cradle to gate. The more than 300 colours & designs allow for beautiful, colourful floor designs.
All Marmoleum floors have a Topshield pro finish, meaning they are scratch and scuff resistant. This makes Marmoleun an easy to maintain flooring with long lasting appearance retention. Go to the Marmoleum collection
Our renewed Bulletin Board pin board linoleum offers a practical, simple solution to collect and exchange thoughts and ideas whenever people plan, create and meet. Bulletin Board is an all-natural material that can be applied in framed or mounted pin boards or directly to the wall. Its surface is tactile & colourful, creating a decorative element in your space.
Forbo Furniture Linoleum is a natural surfacing material that delivers the finishing touch for all high end furniture designs such as desks, chairs, stools, cabinets, doors and displays. Furniture Linoleum is renowned for its elegance and durability, radiating high quality and finesse. The mat surface and it's warm, soft texture make it a unique surfacing solution.
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Are you looking for the aesthetics of natural wood and stone floors with the advantages of strong and comfortable vinyl tiles? Explore our Allura LVT collections. Warm underfoot, excellent dimensional stability, easy installation and maintenance. We offer our LVT designs in several constructions to make sure there is always a suitable choice for your application.
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A general purpose vinyl perfect for waiting areas where a durable solution is key. Eternal is available in realistic wood effects, stone and abstract designs, a broad palette of colours and some digitally printed visuals which are designed to inspire.
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Forbo Flooring has over 30 years experience and industry knowledge in this specialist field and has produced over 100 million m2 of acoustic floor coverings. Sarlon | Modul’up is phthalate free and offers a wide range of colours and designs.
Sarlon | Modul’up is an excellent all-round performer ideal for waiting areas where noise pollution can be an issue. It has an impact sound reduction of 15-19 dB and requires minimum cleaning and maintenance and is available in an extensive range of colours and designs.
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Step is perfect for areas prone to spillages, the Step collection offers varying levels of slip resistance from r10-r12. PUR pearl finish means Step is resistant to scuff marks and improves the ease of cleaning and maintenance. Particles in the wear layer of all Forbo step safety floors guarantee lifetime sustainable slip resistance. Step is available in over 60 designs in wood and stone effects.
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The SMART-top surface finish ensures that Sphera has a high resistance to chemicals, scratches and stains, which makes it a perfect flooring solution for high traffic environments. Sphera is a homogeneous vinyl which is easy to clean and phthalate free which provides a hygienic indoor environment. The in-line coating and subsequent embossing ensure superior appearance and durability.
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By keeping out dirt and moisture at the entrance, cleaning costs can be cut by up to 65%. Our Nuway collection is the recognized market leader in engineered entrance flooring systems. Nuway entrance systems provide an outstanding first line of defense against soil and moisture entering a building, on the soles of shoes and the treads of wheeled traffic. It helps to keep your interior floor coverings dryer and cleaner whilst also preventing slips.
Our Coral collection has been the market leading, textile entrance flooring brand for 50 years. It offers more choice than ever before with attractive and sustainable clean-off systems and is available in styles and constructions to suit all applications, budgets and aesthetic requirements. Coral entrance floors can prolong the life of your floor as well as greatly reduce cleaning costs and the risk of slipping.
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Can't find what you are looking for despite our wide product range? No worries, we have more. Within our Bespoke Design flooring you can design your own unique floor with our digital print techniques in Flotex, Eternal project vinyl and Coral entrance flooring and the refined Aquajet cutting technique for Marmoleum flooring.
Our advanced digital printing technology enables striking floor visuals that cannot be achieved with conventional print techniques. It enables you to design your own unique floor in the high quality of our heterogeneous vinyl sheet flooring.
Choose from thousands of images that are licensed and ready to be reproduced or design your own floor. Whatever the type, size, scale or complexity of design, our Digital Print delivers pin sharp and vivid images as a result of 6 colour, 600dpi (high resolution) digital printing.
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As Flotex flocked flooring has over 70 million fibres per square metre, it provides a unique high density substrate for printing. As a result, vibrant designs and true to life visuals can be printed in high level photographic resolutions. All desired colour shades, tones and hues can be achieved.
Digital print offers an infinite number of design options ranging from abstracts with an intricate colour spectre to realistic images of grass, sand or water, or any picture projected on your floor. Create 3D depth or a “trompe l‘oeil” effect on your floor.
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Are you looking for something unique on your floor? That is also sustainable and durable? Our Designing with Marmoleum selection offers you just that. With our Aquajet technique we can create the most precise and detailed floor designs. From laser engraved Marmoleum tiles to exciting designs created by international designers.
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Great looks for a great welcome. Forbo offers a bespoke print and cut-out design service to create your own unique entrance mat. Forbo Coral Logo entrance flooring will retain its looks whilst keeping out dirt and moist for years to come.
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One of the main problems in any working environment is the poor air quality. While polluted air is rarely visible to the naked eye, air quality does greatly influence the wellbeing and productivity of office staff. Poor air quality can even result in respiratory illnesses and other diseases. It is especially caused by poor ventilation and the evaporation of volatile organic compounds (VOC emissions) from furniture cleaning detergents and building materials.
Fact: Good ventilation can help increase productivity
Many experts are of the opinion that the combination of a climate control system and natural ventilation is the best solution, as it provides an optimum balance between energy consumption and quality of the climate and air quality. The ceiling height in offices also plays a role: the higher the ceiling, the more room there is for so-called air stratification (various temperature layers). This results in effective natural air displacement and allows more opportunity for air intake.
An effective method of solving another part of this problem is to tackle it at source, as in the case of printers and copiers, while also precluding materials that have high VOC (volatile organic compounds) emissions. Having an office with plants and flowing water is a great way to reduce air pollutants, as these two features help to remove carbon monoxide and other toxins or impurities. Using low VOC floor coverings, wall pannelling, paints and soft furnishings can also help to optimise indoor air quality.
Fact: Clean air keeps employees healthy
So how does that translate into flooring in the office? It is our mission to design and offer products that contribute in a positive way to the health and comfort of the individual.
• our floors are guaranteed free of any banned toxics
• our floors have low to even close to zero product emission
• our products are phthalate free
• our portfolio offers proven solutions against allergens and fine dust
Our Flotex flocked flooring and Marmoleum linoleum floor coverings have the prestigious Allergy UK Seal of Approval™, as with the correct cleaning and maintenance regime, they won't harbour dust mites or allergens, contributing to better indoor air quality and enhanced comfort for employees and visitors.
Studies have shown poor acoustics to be the main annoyance factor in an office environment, impacting on employees’ ability to retain vital information and causing feelings of stress and fatigue. A typical office generates sound levels of 54 A-weighted decibels or more, above the recommended 45dB. Ideally speaking, the acoustic design of an office environment should be in keeping with the activities of its users. It is worth paying attention to sustainable acoustic design solutions as they can safeguard the productivity and health of employees. In the longer term, this can prevent the high costs of absenteeism of employees or productivity losses.
The floor plays an important role in office acoustics.We therefore measure the decibel impact of each of our floor covering types. Based on this, we can advise on the optimal floor covering solution to reduce impact sounds on the floor below and ambient solutions for the space in which you are working.
Innovation has lead to a number of backings with enhanced acoustic performance. Forbo supplies textile softback floors which can absorb up to 30dB of impact noise.
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Fact: Pleasant acoustics mean happier employees
It will come as no surprise that daylight and lighting are also factors that influence productivity in the workplace. Whilst it is simple to determine the light concentration in a workspace, there is an initially weak relationship between light concentration and productivity. Loss of productivity does not occur until lighting levels drop significantly below 300 lux.
As far as floor coverings are concerned, their LRVs (light reflection values) are extremely important. Forbo supplies this information along with their floor coverings. By choosing wisely, you are ensuring sufficient light as well as saving on the energy costs of lighting.
Fact: Eyes are more relaxed in sufficient daylight
Many office facilities worldwide are using Forbo floor coverings. Visit our reference section and get inspired by worldwide reference projects.
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To create your floor and make up your mind what would fit best we have several tools and services. Our FloorVisualizer helps you to place our floors in any environment, and even combine them, so you can see how it looks.
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The responsibility for forging global partnerships with key clients is entrusted to our most experienced Key Account Managers. Dedicated to customer care, their only remit is to ensure that Forbo delivers a flooring solution that is ideally suited to your needs.
• We can supply international quotations and have experience with international order processes and local regulations
• We manage international logistics
• We have 20 years partnerships with worldwide customers
As a global partner we stand next to you on a local level. Our design team can offer guidance and assistance as required. Our technicians speak the language of the flooring installers and in this way everybody is aligned.
• Forbo Flooring Systems is part of the Swiss Forbo Group
• Key figures Forbo Group 2019:
> Net sales 1282.2 CHF Mio
> Employees 5.600
• A worldwide presence:
> 25 production facilities and distribution companies
> 6 assembly centers
> 48 pure sales organizations in a total of 38 countries across the globe
• European manufacturer with factories in The United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Russia.
• European logistics and responsiveness
We care about you and the environment
• We have received various labels and certification for your products and or production facilities.
• All of our manufacturing sites are ISO certified. Raw materials are used efficiently, waste is recycled whenever possible.
• We are committed to social responsibility, the Forbo sites are certified according to SA8000.
creating better environments
We offer you:
• A sole source of supply for all your flooring requirements
• Local advice, support and cross border project management
• Efficiencies of scale, certainty of supply and rapid delivery
Above all one single contract and one single point of contact to save you time and money.
Local teams working with local representatives
Throughout the duration of a project, your Forbo Key Account Manager serves as your single point of contact for any questions, from anywhere in the world.
We believe that this approach saves you time, eliminate hassle and uncertainty and ensures consistency and reliability, no matter how complex your project.